This is a statistical index to the Village Voice Pazz & Jop music critics poll, generated in the process of its tabulation for the last few years.
 
Click any linked column-heading to sort a table by that column. Click any album or song for an artist profile, or any voter for a voter profile.
 
Some explanation of the various esoteric metrics:
Similarity is calculated for albums, songs and artists based on voter overlap, and for ballots and voters based on album+song+artist overlap. The ballot and voter scores are weighted by album/song/artist popularity.
Andy Wang
Overall
Centricity.401#460 of 1313
Breadth.508#359 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.489#164 of 542
Metalism.000#75 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
The Naked and Famous · Simple Forms301
BeyoncĂ© · Lemonade10179
Frank Ocean · Blonde10101
Kanye West · The Life of Pablo1072
Conor Oberst · Ruminations107
Banks & Steelz · Anything but Words101
A Tribe Called Quest · We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service5184
Bon Iver · 22, a Million544
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam · I Had a Dream That You Were Mine59
The Lumineers · Cleopatra53
SongOther Votes
Rihanna (ft. Drake) · "Work"38
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam · "A 1000 Times"9
The Chainsmokers (ft. Halsey) · "Closer"5
The Lumineers · "Ophelia"3
Fitz & the Tantrums · "Handclap"1
Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello · "Bad Things"1
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness · "Fire Escape"0
Empire of the Sun · "High & Low"0
Grouplove · "Welcome to Your Life"0
The Naked and Famous · "Higher"0

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.17111Kyle Kramer · 2016
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.16211Reggie Ugwu · 2016
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.15710J. Anthony Ware · 2016
.15310Austin Reed · 2016
.1498Dan Hyman · 2016
.14210E.J. Friedman · 2016
.13810Brendan Klinkenberg · 2016
.1329Steve Erickson · 2016
.1319Glenn Gamboa · 2016
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2010 original ballot
Centricity.471#172 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Kanye West · My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy30265
B.o.B · The Adventures of Bobby Ray155
Drake · Thank Me Later1041
Nicki Minaj · Pink Friday103
The National · High Violet796
Ke$ha · Animal + Cannibal716
Magnetic Fields · Realism62
Arcade Fire · The Suburbs5144
New Pornographers · Together521
Eminem · Recovery519
SongOther Votes
Kanye West (ft. Pusha T) · "Runaway"76
Kanye West (ft. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Bon Iver) · "Monster"66
Yeasayer · "O.N.E."20
Far East Movement · "Like a G6"14
B.o.B (ft. Hayley Williams) · "Airplanes"13
Rihanna (ft. Drake) · "What's My Name?"12
Taio Cruz · "Dynamite"11
Usher (ft. will.i.am) · "OMG"8
Flo Rida (ft. David Guetta) · "Club Can't Handle Me"3
Taio Cruz (ft. Ludacris) · "Break Your Heart"1

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.23512Clover Hope · 2010
.22712Michael Gallucci · 2010
.21612Ramit Singh · 2010
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.17911Philip Martin · 2010
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.1529Al Choman · 2010
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.1519Chris Molanphy · 2010
.1509Jeremiah McNeil · 2010
.1486Charles Johnson · 2010
.1468Charles R. Cross · 2010
.1458Lindsey Holder · 2010
2009 original ballot
Centricity.385#165 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Jay-Z · The Blueprint 32530
Phoenix · Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix15138
Lady Gaga · The Fame/The Fame Monster1525
Metric · Fantasies1519
Yeah Yeah Yeahs · It's Blitz!5113
Lily Allen · It's Not Me, It's You536
Black Eyed Peas · The E.N.D.59
Matt and Kim · Grand58
Taylor Swift · Fearless57
Owl City · Ocean Eyes52
SongOther Votes
Jay-Z (ft. Alicia Keys) · "Empire State of Mind"88
Phoenix · "1901"80
Kings of Leon · "Use Somebody"24
Black Eyed Peas · "I Gotta Feeling"21
Jay-Z (ft. Rihanna and Kanye West) · "Run This Town"17
Keri Hilson (ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo) · "Knock You Down"12
Owl City · "Fireflies"6
Cobra Starship (ft. Leighton Meester) · "Good Girls Go Bad"5
BrakesBrakesBrakes · "Oh! Forever"0
Fabolous (ft. Jeremih) · "My Time"0

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.27813Roy Trakin · 2009
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.20711Pete Glowatsky · 2009
.20011Harry Burson · 2009
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2008 original ballot
Centricity.260#293 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Xiu Xiu · Women As Lovers160
MGMT · Oracular Spectacular1540
Killers · Day & Age156
Santogold · Santogold1078
Kanye West · 808s & Heartbreak1056
Guns N' Roses · Chinese Democracy1012
Gym Class Heroes · The Quilt72
Marry a Thief · I Am Dying to Outlive You70
Magnetic Fields · Distortion521
Secret Machines · Secret Machines51
SongOther Votes
Estelle (ft. Kanye West) · "American Boy"69
MGMT · "Time to Pretend"52
Coldplay · "Viva la Vida"38
Kanye West · "Love Lockdown"36
Killers · "Human"11
Death Cab for Cutie · "The Ice Is Getting Thinner"0
Deerheart · "Breakdown"0
Natasha Bedingfield · "Pocketful of Sunshine"0
Rick Ross · "Maybach Music"0
Xiu Xiu · "No Friend Oh!"0

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.18433Clover Hope
.16322Michael Endelman
.15313David Hiltbrand
.14818Melissa Maerz
.14421Raquel Cepeda-Jenkins
.13822Harry Burson
.13415Clifford J Corcoran
.12720Pete Freedman
.12216Pete Glowatsky
.11928Mikael Wood
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.11726James Montgomery
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.10737Eric Danton
.10731Glenn Gamboa
.10217Julia Simon
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.09715Tracy Hopkins
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